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Elizabeth Borges: A Birth Mother’S Story Of Loss And Gain, Janice G. Schuster Aug 2015

Elizabeth Borges: A Birth Mother’S Story Of Loss And Gain, Janice G. Schuster

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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Leap Of Faith: Adopting Our Sons Through The State Of Massachusetts, Janice G. Schuster Jun 2015

Leap Of Faith: Adopting Our Sons Through The State Of Massachusetts, Janice G. Schuster

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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Completing The Puzzle Of My Early Life, Kirk Schuster-Southern Apr 2015

Completing The Puzzle Of My Early Life, Kirk Schuster-Southern

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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Philomena: A Film Review, Emily S. Adler Apr 2015

Philomena: A Film Review, Emily S. Adler

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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Global Flows And The Globalization Of Nothing: Synthesizing The Incongruous, Elliott H. Valentine Apr 2015

Global Flows And The Globalization Of Nothing: Synthesizing The Incongruous, Elliott H. Valentine

Black & Gold

Increasingly pertinent in contemporary society, globalization is a force that promises to change the way people interact with others in almost all aspects of life. As scholars attempt to theorize about such situations, disparate perspectives about the dynamics and possibilities of globalization arise. In order to develop a more comprehensive theory of globalization, this piece engages the theory of global flows and the five “-scapes” as presented in Arjun Appadurai’s Modernity at Large (1996), as well as George Ritzer’s conception of the globalization of nothing as presented in The Globalization of Nothing 2 (2007). A rich synthesis of these two …


Interfacing Catholic Social Meanings, Sociology, Self, And Pedagogical Practices, Daniel J. Myers, Andrew J. Weigert Apr 2015

Interfacing Catholic Social Meanings, Sociology, Self, And Pedagogical Practices, Daniel J. Myers, Andrew J. Weigert

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

What connects Catholic Social Tradition with Sociology? How do each inform the other and how do they, together, flow through and animate the sociologist? Within a student-driven learning community pedagogy, this course builds on the humanistic aspects of Sociology as a scientific perspective a la Peter Berger’s Invitation to Sociology. This foundation is then filtered through a social psychological understanding of self with a sense of vocation through which persons’ deepest passions meets humans’ greatest needs. Biographical vignettes of sociologists’ careers of study that address issues of racial and gender inequalities and psycho-social shifts in values over the life course …


Review: Animal Oppression & Human Violence, Corey L. Wrenn Feb 2015

Review: Animal Oppression & Human Violence, Corey L. Wrenn

Between the Species

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